mac80211: Fixed bug in mesh portal paths

Paths to mesh portals were being timed out immediately after each use in
intermediate forwarding nodes.  mppath->exp_time is set to the expiration time
so assigning it to jiffies was marking the path as expired.

Signed-off-by: Javier Cardona <javier@cozybit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Yurovsky <andrey@cozybit.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

diff --git a/net/mac80211/rx.c b/net/mac80211/rx.c
index f237df4..9f2807a 100644 (file)
--- a/net/mac80211/rx.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/rx.c
@@ -1712,7 +1712,6 @@ ieee80211_rx_h_mesh_fwding(struct ieee80211_rx_data *rx)
                        mpp_path_add(proxied_addr, mpp_addr, sdata);
                } else {
                        spin_lock_bh(&mppath->state_lock);
-                       mppath->exp_time = jiffies;
                        if (compare_ether_addr(mppath->mpp, mpp_addr) != 0)
                                memcpy(mppath->mpp, mpp_addr, ETH_ALEN);
                        spin_unlock_bh(&mppath->state_lock);